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THE POEM OF BEING LONELY



They don't know,
Those who don't live alone,
How frightening is
Soundlessness;
How a person talks to himself,
How he runs to mirrors,
Hungry for a soul,
They don't know it.



Orhan Veli Translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat, 1989